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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. BssuTsSard and ID
Early, who are in charge Of the drawings, is
guarantee Of absolute fairness and intezri-
~, that the chances are all equal, and that
no one can possibly divine what numbers
will draw prize. All parties therefore ad-
vertitinR to guarantee prizes in this Lottery,
or holding out any other impossible induce
ments, are swindlers, and only aim to de-
ceiYe and dofrAud the unwary.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
Manhood : - 5 ":;: , : Ss;

dence, causing Premature Decay, Nervous
Debility, Lost Manhood, ets. having tried
in vain every known remedy, hlA discovered
a staple self.oure, which be willsend fhkB
O. J. MASON,
Post Office Box slT9. New York City.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
MarveIs in Ovsrcaats /!

We are overstocked with Oyercoats.
We must reduce the overstock by
reducing the prices. This is the
only successful way. Then it is
slash and cut with prices. Our
difficulty is your opportunity. II
you want good Oyercoats for very
little money take advantage of the
slaughter in prices at the MISBIT
CLOTHING PARLORS.
DOWN GO SUIT PRICES!
The MISFIT CLOTHING PAR
LORS never carry stocks from one
season to another. To keep con-
tracts we have had to buy largely of
Suits. 1t hasn't been particularly
brisk season for we retail clothiers,
and as we wantto get rid OF all our
Suits before the first of spring, prices
have to drop. This makes bonanza
for buyers, and as it is cheaper to buy
fine custom made clothing at prices
much less than ordinary factory
work retails for, we expect to be ex-
ceedingly busy.
If you want to make money By
saving it; if you want clothing, and
want it good as well as cheap, your
place is at the
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
MAsONIO TEMPLE BONDS.
ELECTION OF D1RECrORs.

UEIoN AND Planters BANK OF NENPHIs,l
Memphis, Tenn, December 6, 1886. J
STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified tina
- an election will be held at this Bank on
the Second Monday in January, 1887, from
10 am. until PM, TO choose Directors 10
serve the ensuing year,.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
Capital Prize, $I50,000.

2l79 Prizes, amounting to...-........ 1886, 900
Application for rates to clubs should be
made only to the once Of the Company at
New Orleans,
For further information write clearly,
giving full address. POSTAL NOTES, Ex-
press Money Orders, or New York Exchange
In ordinary letter. Currency by Express lat
M. A. DAUPHIN,
New Orleans, In.
Or N. A. DAUPHIN,
Washington. ID. O.,
Of at 9 W est Court Sc, Memphis, Tenn
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08

Make p. 0. Money Orders payable
and address Registered Letters to
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,
New Orleans. La.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
HOTEL ARRIVALS.
Tho New Gayoso.
HARRINGTON, STEWART 4 WHITE.

CHAs. g, RoTH.......M aosgsr.
Rates " 50 TO n per day, according TO loea-
ton Of rooma
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08

Buy them Of Kirk alien & Go.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
Peabody Hotel.

@. D. GALLOWAY 4 co. aopRInroR
Rates 81 so and 90 per day according to
size and location of room-SpSoial
rataa m ada
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
Prlddy House,

formerly Commercial Hotel,l
Cor. Front AM Jefferson Sts., Memphis, Tenn
j. ii. PRIDDY, Prop'r, of Richmond, Va.
Transient rateA, 81 50 To 81 Der day.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-01-08
GAatOn's Hotel.

W. II. HAM...........MAEAeER.
European plan. ENLARGED and refurnished.
Prices according to size and locs-
ton of roOma
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28

vast fund of information it contains
makes it valuable to persons of almost
every trade and profession. AS q Ga
zetteer alone it is well worth the price
charged. SIS. 90, for it fully describes ev-
cry townin which a newspaper is issued,
and few people care to know about any
place where one is not.
The number of newspapers published
in the United States, Territories (in-
Guiding Alaska) and Canada is put at
Is, ,42O; an increase of 5Sl in one year.
The growth of newspapers in some of
the Western States would be matter
of wonder, if it were that this year Is
no exception to the rule. In Kansas
the increase is 80 and in Nebraska 81,
while the Keystone State shows small
er advance of So and the Buckeye State
of 50. Pennsylvania exhibits the larg-
est in dallies, l.; Kansas in weeklies 81,
States show decrease, the most prom
inent instances being New Hampshire
and Virginia six each. The whole vol
ume shows that great care has been taxi
en- to sustain its reputation rs the most
comprehensive work OF the kind yet
published, ard 10 insure accuracy in ev-
cry detail. y nything less than n com
peudinm of American newspapers
and periodicals would surprise those
who are familiar with the former efforts
of this firm, who are SO we'll known as
the oldest, largest and best known of
all the American Advertising AGENCIES.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
Economic Way of Raising Potatoes.

A most successful way of raising pO-
tatoes in the South, the Americal Agri-
culturist says, is by planting them in
what is called a "lazy bed," which is
done by applying manure very heavily
in the rows and then covering the whole
bed with straw, leaves, corn-Stalks, or
any coarse litter. By this plan, no
working or wedding is required and the
growth is not stopped by the first hot,
dry weather, as the ground is kept cool
and moist, which greatly increases the
} ield of the potatoes and makes them of
much better quality.
A good plan, by which several objects
are combined, is to select field which
is to be sown to wheat next fall, and
fence in as much as will make good
sided feeding lot for COWS and sheep.
In this enclosure feed all the corn
stalks. The following spring take the
adjoining land for potatoes, plow well ;
then lay off three or four rows at time
Oh the side furtherest from the cow
pen. Make the furrows deep; drop the
potatoes at good distances apart. and
fill the burrows entirely up with coarse
manure, keeping on In this way until
all are planted. The object III planting
only a few rows at time is to avoid
running the manure wagon over the
burrows, as this would destroy them.
After the field is all planted, rake with
a hay or stalk-rake the stalks from the
co T-pen on the potato plot, so that the
covering will be a foot thick after set
tling. 7 his is all that is needed until
harvest, when the stalks are raked from
the potatoes and thinly spread oyer the
wheat field, to be plowed under. The
potatoes can be gathered without dig
ging, as they will either be on the top
of the ground or in the loose manure.
In the South, potatoes raised in this
way may be left in the ground all win
ter and gathered in perfect condition in
the spring.
The conditions of success with meth
cd are, to use plenty of manure and 10
have the mulch at least a foot thick.
Nothing is so good for mulch as corn
stalks, and in raising potatoes in gar
den, the stalks may be piled on the edge
of the patch in gathering, and may be
used for several years.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
Working the Highways.

In many sections of the East, there is
growing dissatisfaction with the old
method of working roads, ]. e., where
each resident along certain "beat, !"
or road-section, works out his assessed
time thereon. The general result of
such labor is poor roads. People now
adays want something better than is
furnished by the old road system, and
the advent of improved woodworking
implements shows that better roads are
easily obtainable.
The prevailing arguments against the
contract system are that persons not
owning real estate or personal property
are, of course, exempt from taxation,
and consequently from woodworking;
under the old system they are assessed
one day at least ,and must work or con-
mute. And taxpayers, already burden
ed, it may be, object to the payment IN
cash for labor which they can perform
themselves without great inconven-
ience. Here the objection to the old
system may be mentioned, viz, that
labor on the highway is one thing, on
the farm another. Everyone knows
that. as rule, the days work on the
road is "eut short at both ends ;" that
bows labor often counts as mans labor;
that the roads are worked once in the
spring for all the year, and at time
when snch work may not be .1ost need
ed 7: that the day Is often nothing more
nor less than a holiday. If perfect
roads are the desideratum, the old sys-
tenn fails to furnish them, or only in
exceptional cases. fhe contract sys-
tenn is more expensive until the road.
beds are once put in good order, then
less money need be expended upon
them. And yet. if a man values his
time and labor at the low price of one
dollar per day, the expense objections
largely overcome. When the contract
system is adopted and once fairly tried
it is not often rejected. -Anelican Ag'
riculturist for May.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
Smoking Under Water.

Says an expert swimmer in the New
York Sun ut looks very strange 10
see a man 60 under water with a light
ed cigar in his mouth, smoke calmly at
the bottom, and come to the surface
with the cigar burning as nicely as ir
he were smoking in his easy chair. APP
parentIy he deiies all natural laws, but
of course, he dosen't. 1t is simple
trick, but it requires practice. Just as
l throw myself backward to go down, 1
flip the cigar end for end with my
tongue and upper lip, and get the light
ed end in my mouth, closing my lips
water tight around it. A little slip
perry elm juice gargled before going in
prevents any accidental burning of the
mouth. Going slowly down backward,
| lie at full length on the bottom OF the
tank and blow smoke through the cut
end of my cigar. Just as | reach the
surface again, another flip reverses the
cigar, and there l am smoking calmly.
The reversing is done SO quickly that
nobody notices it,"
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
THE MINISTERIAL CANDIDATE.
What He Would DO and Say in the
Pulpit.

was travelling up the Ohio River
one day last fall on the packet Fairy.
The day was very cold. y party of us
were sitting around the stove i'll the
lower cabin, while the boat landed at
some little way-side stopping place 10
| take on freight and passengers.
Presently tall, gaunt old man, evil
IDENTIFY new arrival, came up, with his
carpet bag in hand, which he deposited
| between his knees as he sat down and
spread out his long knotty fingers be-
fore the door of the stove to warm
them.
Casting his keen, gray eyes around
him as he did Sc, ,he suddenly espied the
thin, cadaverous-looking young fellow,
dressed all in black broadcloth, who
was sitting next to me in the circle
around the stove.
'Why, howdy, Lemmel?' the old man
said in the heartieSt way. Il hardly
know yer. How's the folks ?
'P-pr-pr-pretty w-w-w-well, M-M-Mr.
J-J-JohEson,' replied the young man,
suffering miserably, as he submitted
10 the hearty Misunderstanding which the
old man had reached across several of
us to effect.
FINISHED your schoolin' yet ? inQuir-
ed he.
'Y-y-yes s-s-s-sir,' replied the young
man, with difficulty.
'Waal, what blzness air ye in now p
asked the old fellow, eying the dress of
his young friend curiously.
I-I-I'm st-st-st-studyiug for 1.-THE
m-m-ministry.'
'Phac-ee y exclaimed the old man,
in low whistle of intense surprise.
WAL, now, Lemmel,' he said after a
while, that's about the last line Nv biz
ness I'd ever thought of attempting
to tackle eff I'd a-been in yore place.
What ever put ii into yore head p
III had a v-ve-very st-st-strong ca
ca-call, Mr.. Jo-Jo-Jo-Johnson, explain
ed the young man, with slight flush
on his pale, weak face.
You might a-had dozen calls re-
turned the old man, dryly, but ef I'd
a-been you I'd be switched ef I'd d-come.
An "audible smile'' ran around the
circle at the old mans wit, which he,
however, never noticed. His young
friend made no response to his last suP-
gestion, while he continued in a dry,
anxious tone:
1T beats me, Lemmel, to know how
you log, even conoedin' the call, tc get
| through with the rest of the biZness.'
'TR-he Lord ,eill p-p-put the ae-toordS
into m-my m-m-mOuth,' gasped the
poor young fellow. suffering worse
than eyer under the keen gray eyes OF
| the old man.
He'll have to do more IAN that, SON.
nv SAID the old man pityingly. After
He's put 'em thar, blamed i He tcont
her to send somebody else along t. pull
'enl out
The ministerial candidate retired to
his state-room, and was seen no more.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
Gaining Our Children's Confidence.

Few mothers really think what a
grave error they are committing in re-
pelling he confidence of their little
ones. The time may come, all too soon,
when the children who are thus repell-
ed, will refuse 10 haye confidence IN
mama, when she would give all she
holds dear in the world to gain il. Chill
dren must have somebody to talk TO
and contiie in, and if mother does not
have time to listen 10 them, is it any
more than natural that they will seek a
contdant elsewhere ? And who knows
what wrong and harmful counsel and
advice that person may give your boy
or girl ? You may say perhaps, that
your boy or girl never cared TO coniide
in you; they always preferred out
side coniidants. If so, mothers, whose
fault is it ? \ mother is her natural
confdant, just as much as tshe is Eer
child's natural protector. And if her
child turns from her TO seek counsel
from others, then in nine cases out OF
ten, the mother must have wo>fully
failed IN her duty.
In their baby days mama is always
ready with her sympathy, when they
come to her with little grievances or
troubles. If she is always ready to
point out the right way to the small
lads and lassies, TO listen TO the why
and wherefore of each mistake. failure
or success, il she Is always ready and
willing sharer of all their little secrets,
then her children will away consider
her W hat she should be, the very best
confdant they could have in all tie
world. And the child that conlides in
mother all his or her secrets, whether
they be great or small, is safe. For
what boy or girl can go astray when
they have nothing hid from mama p
American Agridultlre for May.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
stanton and the President.

We quote the following anecdote from
"Recollections of Secretary Stanton"
by clerk OF the War Department. in
the Century: "When Mr.. Stanley, of
North Carolna,was appointed Military
Governor of his State, the Secretary Of
War caused TO be filled out one of the
blank forms used for notifying military
nominees Of their appointment to office
10y the President and when he had sign
ed it and caused the seal of the Depart
ment of War to be attached To 1t, he
concluded that it would be well to have
the sign manual of the President affixed
to the instrument. lie sent the COM
mission To the White House, with tie
request that the President would sign
and return it Immediately. Mr.. Lin
coin took the document and read it
carefully, and then began turning and
twisting it about, as though lii search
of something. At last he handed it TO
the bearer and said, ironically:
Did Mr.. Stanton say where was 10
put my signature ~
mo SIR" replied the astonished
clerk.
"Can YOU tell me-" asked the Presi-
dent, whereabouts on this paper | am
to put my signature ~
The clerk looked ut the commission
and saw the ample signature of Mr..
Stanton Immediately at the foot Of the
body of the instrument, with the coun-
ter-signature of the Adjutant-General
To the left. He also saw neat, snug
looking white space beneath the sign
manual of the Secretary of War which
Mr.. Lincoln might have occupied to
advantage had he seen fit, but the clelk
was polite and replied: Il don't see
any place provided for your signature,
Mr.. President and was proceeding to
explain how the omission obviously
came about when the President inter
rupted him and said in dignlied tone:
Take the paper back TO the Secretary
of war, with my compliments, and say
that the President will promptly sign
any proper commission that may lie
sent to him for Governor Stanley or
anybody else
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
The Conscientious Fireman.

Young Wife-'I know very well,
mother, that my husband no long er
loves me-
Mother-'now do you know it, my
da ughterr'
You know he belongs TO fire COM
pany?'
Yes
We'll, before we were married, when
we were counting and the 1re bell rang,
he never went to the fire. He said that
he would rather pay the fine.
We'll, what does he do nowP'
Why, now, at the very first sound of
the bell, he says duty calls him, and he
is off and away in three shakes of a
sleeps tail. Teas StfiagS.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
NEWSPAPERS IN 1887.

Geo. P. Rowell & Co., of New York =,
will issne on Monday, May End, the
Nineteenth Annual edition of their
standard publication, the American
Newspaper Directory"
The new volume contains an exhaus-
tive list OF all Glass Publication SO ad-
mlrably arranged that any one OF the
three thousand papers represented there
can be readily referred to and all i'm
portant facts concerning it together
with its circulation rating, easily OBJ
tained.
The Newspaper Directory will be u.s.
ed principally by Publishers, AdVertls-
ers and Ady ertislng Agents. pus tne
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28

TIE morality as derived from relig-
ion which the State needs will be best
supplied 10y the confinement of its
agency to things temporal and the en-
tie omission on its part Of any attempt
to administer things spiritual. The
State can do religion no favor so great
rs to have nothing 10 do with it, and
itself no favor so great as to let religion
alone. The moment the two are put in
alliance with each other both are iajur.
ed. Samuel r. Speer, ID. ID.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
ALEGISLATOR THRASHED.
He Offers to Sell the Votes of Fellow
Members at Ridiculously Low Prices.

He Offers to Sell the Votes of Fellow
LANSING. Mich, April 2l.-Repre-
sentative Milo H. Dakin, Of Saginaw,
found himself in pretty hot water last
evening in the state house of represent
atives. Dakin is a shingle Inspector
and packer when not helping to run the
state government, and ranksin thehouse
as labor representative. There is
bill before the house to amend the char.
ter of Saginaw. Dakin went to the
mayor of Saginaw day or two ago
with list of seventeen members OF the
legislature who, he told the mayor,
would oppose the bill unless their votes
were bought for it. Opposite the name
of each member was his alleged price
for his vote. The mayor said: "Ah,
is that SOP" and went back to Saginaw
to raise the money, as Dakin supposed.
Instead, however, he raised different
kind Of breeze about Dakin by inform
ing the members whose names were on
this list. They held an indignation
meeting, and about O'Clock last eve-
ming Dakin was cornered in one of the
committee rooms and roundly thrashed.
The attention OF the house was thus
and brought to Dakin, andhe:will proba-
bly be expelled. The prices named by
Dakin for various members of his list
were absurdly small, even if they were
purchaseable representatives, and it ls
claimed that what Dakin wanted was
to get the money from the mayor and
pocket 1t himself.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
TIME FOR REPAIRS.

Railroad official Ito President of the
company am inclined 10 think that
the big iron bridge has been tTiile III .
safe.
President Nonsense. Why do you
think so ?
Official Because this dispatch says
it has just gone down with u train
load of passengers.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28

SHE HAD HIM. - Omaha Husband !:
sNow, think this is going TOO far.
You promised me you wonld counter
mand your order for that Dress
Omaha Wife Il wrote TO the firm
that very day
But here is the dress and the bill for
it-enough to bankrupt me almost.
How do you explain that .
Il gave you the letter to mail. and l
suppose you forgot it as usual
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
A Warming to Cigarette Smokers.
Raining I'm Kansas.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan, April 2l.-A
heavy rain has been falling for two
days. Grass needed it, and wheat and
oats would have been failure if it had
not come soon. The wheat and oats
crops are now safe, and corn stands a
very fair chance. Most uf the peaches
are NIL right, and there will be a fair
crop. Before the rain water was get
ting scarce for stock in the territory,
and grass was making a very slow
growth. Now every water hole will be
filed end the creeks running, and grass
will be good enough for stock to gain
on it.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
Miscellaneous News.
Cut I'm Twain by a Circular Saw.

SYRACUSE, N. Y, April 2l.-At
Moravia, N. Y, to-day, Frank Close
fell up circular saw and his head and
body were split in two the entire
length.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
PAT fE:NTS

Obtained, and all PiTEN Z BJSjNEfSa y
tended 10 PROMPTLY Y and for MODERATE
FEES.
Our Office is opposite the L. :. Patent ONCE,
and we can obtain Patents in less time than
those remote from WASHINGTON.
Send MODEL OK ORA WING. We advise
as 10 patentahility free oi charge; and We MAKE
NO CHARGE UNLESS PA TENT is sc
CURED.
We refer here TO the Postmaster, the Supt OF
Money order Div, and 10 the officials OF the L..
=. Patent ONCE. For circular, advice, terms
and references 10 actual clients in your own
State or county, write 10
CA SNOW & Co,
Opposite Patent Onice, Washington, ID. {,
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28

When Baby was sick, we gave her CasIoria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria
When she became Miss, she clung to Castoria,
When she had Children, she gave them Castoria'
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
shenandoah's Postmaster Short.

SHENANDOAH. Pa, April l2- A
postofice inspector who has been here
during the past week examining the &C
counts of Postmaster Kindt has discov-
a shortage Of about thirteen hundred
dollars. The postmaster has made good
the deficiency, but in doing so he has
bankrupt himself. He is still in charge
of the Office and declares that he does
not know what became of the money,
but that his brother and Charles E.
Warley, clerks, are responsible for 1T.
The latter resigned his position on A
pril /, week before the discrepancy
discovered.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28
Inside ofa Building COllapses.

PITTsBURG, April 2l.-This after
noon section of the first four floors of
a seven story building on Seventh
street, occupied by Tate & Myers, COM
mission merchants, collapsed and was
precipi.ated into the cellar. Five per-
sons were in the building at the time,
but were warned of the danger by the
cracking of the timbers in time to make
their escape. The building was erect
ed less than two years ago. 1t is sup
posed that the girder OH the fourth
floor supporting the section which fell
was defective. The loss was about
$4,000.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28

This Hotel has been remodeled and
refurnished, and the Travelling Public
will find il first-class in every respect.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28

First class job work done at the
JOURNAL office.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28

Lates improved Wafer Closet and
Wash Room on liIst floor.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1887-04-28

HEADQUARTERS FOR STOCK DEALERS.
Terms Reasonable uood Livery attached